UPDATED: Heights Library still needs some votes

As of this morning, the Heights Neighborhood Library is in the lead over Mt. Airy, 27,763 to 27,513.

But this is far from over as the competition will continue until Oct. 1. So if you haven’t voted yet, or you have and wish to again, you still can at www.readbuildplay.com. And if it tells you that you have already voted, all you have to do (according to those technical people who know way more about this than I) is clear your browser caches/settings/cookies and then you can vote again and again and again.

ORIGINAL POST

Sara Pope, the children’s librarian of the historic Heights Neighborhood Library, 1301 Heights Boulevard, has sent an e-mail out that is making the rounds through the neighborhood.

Lego (yes, THAT Lego, the best children’s toy ever concocted by humans) and the Association for Library Services to Children, are having an online contest to give $5,000 to the library branch that secures the most votes nationwide in an online survey, and right now the Heights Branch is No. 2 on the list behind some regional library in Mount Airy, North Carolina. (Mount Airy? Pardon me, but what is this, Pandora?)

Now, I’m sure that’s a nice library over there in Mount Up-in-the-Atmosphere, and nothin’ could be finer than to be there when you’re in Carolina, but our Heights branch is easily the best neighborhood library in Houston, the Fourth (or third, depending on who you ask) Largest City in America. And if anyone is deserving of this, it’s Miss Sara and the fine folks over on Heights Boulevard. Here’s what Miss Sara had to say in her e-mail:

Hello storytime parents and caregivers!

Lego and ALSC (the Association for Library Service to Children) are giving away $5000 to be used to purchase books and materials to the library who gets the most votes! All you have to do is go to www.readbuildplay.com and in the drop down menus to the right of the screen, choose your state (Texas), city (Houston) and library (Heights). You don’t have to put in your email address or anything!
It’ll take you about 30 seconds to do, and would really help your favorite library branch. The library with the most votes has 6285, so we have a long way to go! Please get your family and friends to vote, and feel free to share this with anyone you know. If someone wants to post this to the Heights moms/kids groups, I’d appreciate it!

As of this writing, the Carolinians lead the Heights branch 24,357 to 23,421, and… Hold on, be right back…

23,422. The whole process really only takes about 20 seconds. And while $5,000 may not seem like much, for our cash-strapped libraries, it could mean a lot, and the kid that benefits might be yours. Vote early, vote often, vote Heights.